re: New Orleans monument removal question

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If one monument ought to be removed, it's The Battle of Liberty Place monument. It promoted the White League, white supremacy and was basically put in place as a big "frick you" to blacks and Reconstruction. When the Rivergate was torn down and Harrah's built, it was removed and stored away. Few people probably even missed it and/or really gave a shite. The poster boy for white supremacy, David Duke, sued to have it re-erected in a public place. Now it's stuck between the aquarium and the flood wall and I'm willing to bet everything I own that no tourist has ever said, "I'm going to N.O. to see the Battle of Liberty Place monument." Most locals probably didn't know, or care, where it was until Mitch started his bullshite.

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all this.

it's also interesting that no one is bitching about the statue of Albert Sidney Johnston in Metairie Cemetery.